Most african-americans who settled in northern cities during the great migration found jobs in which industry?

African Americans  wound uP in dirTy, backbreaking, unskilled, and lowpaying occupations. These were the least desirable jobs in most industries, but the ones employers felt best suited their workers. More than eight of every ten African American men worked as unskilled laborers in foundries, in the building trades, in meat-packing companies, on the railroads, or as servants, porters.